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Your chair?

from Jenny @ Perfume making

This image does me remind me of something a girl once told me. When she was a child she had an odd thing, when someone she didn’t know visited her parents and sat on a chair, she always sniffed that same chair after the visitor was gone. Hmm would be s…

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January 28, 2007 | Filed Under This and That, Thoughts | Comments Off 

Perfumer and Flavorist Poll on Cropwatch v. IFRA Issue

from Anya @ Anya's Garden of Natural Perfumery

The industry magazine Perfumer and Flavorist is running a poll until February 7th on the boycott that Cropwatch has called for against the IFRA 40th Amendment. Cropwatch is trying to get IFRA to allow discussion of the proposed amendment before it is a…

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January 28, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

Freedom to Choose — and Use — as Informed Consumers

from Anya @ Anya's Garden of Natural Perfumery

Headline: EU Issues Plastic Bubble Pods for Everyone - Protection from Everything GuaranteedOK, let’s get serious.First thing I must state is that no natural perfumer, or traditional perfumer I know, desires that any product they create would cause a …

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January 26, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

Cultural Scent Preferences

from Lucy @ indieperfumes

In different cultures and at different times, it has been seen that people like what they know, as far as what they smell is concerned. Or what they wish for, such as in certain African regions, the smell of rain is considered the most beautiful scent …

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January 26, 2007 | Filed Under Oudh, beauty, culture, smell | Comments Off 

The Axe effect

from Jenny @ Perfume making

Is it true that we choose our partner because of the odor of the body he or she has? I think so, we all have an unique body odor but it’s also that a whole family can have a family odor. I think that we choose our partners not only for her or his char…

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January 21, 2007 | Filed Under Thoughts | Comments Off 

Winterizing the Skin

from Lucy @ indieperfumes

The winter has suddenly hit hard around here, in Brooklyn. After all the balmy days, we are now dealing with teen degree wind chills and snow in the mornings. After awhile, in overheated interiors and drying cold weather, the skin gets dry and sometime…

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January 20, 2007 | Filed Under bath, beauty, hand made, lotions Etsy, natural products for the skin | Comments Off 

Sacred Fragrances, East & West

from Lucy @ indieperfumes

I was fascinated as a child by the Catholic stories of saints who were so holy that they exuded a strong fragrance. Sometimes the fragrance intensified upon their deaths and this was taken as a special incontrovertible sign of sainthood. In the Middle…

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January 17, 2007 | Filed Under Sandalwood, boswellia, frankincense, incense, roses | Comments Off 


Beauty and the Beast

from Lucy @ indieperfumes

Lately the great attention that fashionable people, among them young actors, stylists and others, and a major article in the New York Times has highlighted the beauty without cruelty movement. Vegans don’t want to wear, much less eat anything that harm…

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January 13, 2007 | Filed Under beauty, vegan, vegetarian | Comments Off 

Escada edp

from teacake

Escada edp is the eponymous scent of a house of many bottles. Released in 2005 you would be forgiven for being surprised at how many Escadas (with actual names) preceded it. I am reminded of The Cure’s 13nth album (depending on how you count them), “The Cure” though thankfully the quality of this odd fragrance does not cause grieving and renting of clothes as listening to that album does.

In the face of this not uncommon in fragrance-land names confusion Escada edp is often called Escada Crystal and Escada Signature. Neither of these names appear on the box, the bottle or any of the advertising. Where these names came from as used by varying stores and fragrance lists is a mystery.

This Escada, in a sparkling and very attractive green box has a vivid and simple appeal. It smells of American department store, the scent of cucumbers as presented by jillions of body products, and a round orange blossom note who’s chalky center reminds me of Dior’s Pure Poison. The American department store notes are not shrill or cheap but immediately familiar. I am almost ready to leave off browsing The Gap and make my way to the food court for an enormous pretzel. There is nothing bland about it and from this expats perspective the whole thing is kind of neat. It’s a nifty place capsule that is well done and enjoyable in it’s own right. It should be that Escada edp smells like many other fragrances but it is strangely non-generic. Perhaps it is more an interpretation of a place and time scentwise, a place and time with brightly lit shelves displaying bottle after bottle of American perfumes.

The advertising for this Escada captures it perfectly.

Escada edp was designed by Pierre Bourdon, of Malle’s Iris Poudre fame.

Top note : Bergamot, Black Currant, Green Leaves, Cucumber, Lemon
Middle note : Magnolia, Jasmine, Lily-of-the-Valley, Orange Blossom, Rose, Peony
Base note : Amber, Musk, Tangerine, Vanilla, Iris, Patchouli,Sandalwood

January 13, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 


NEW BLOG

from Zz @ An Artisan Perfumers Notebook

We have moved……..lizzorn.com/journalThanks, Zz….

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January 9, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

Beauty Sleep

from Lucy @ indieperfumes

Few elements are as important as restful sleep for beauty and general well being. Everyone loves to burn the candle at both ends these days, or even is required to, because of time demands and even just not wanting to miss anything; but sleep is one of…

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January 8, 2007 | Filed Under Sleep, beauty, skin care | Comments Off 

Lancome Tropiques: Postcards from the Gift Shop

from teacake @ teacakery

Yesterday in the 34C heat I was happily making mango ginger marmalade. It came out perfectly. I filled a pretty, smaller jar to give away but now I’m keeping it because it’s the best jam I’ve made in a while. About 8 small mangoes, 2 oranges, crystall…

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January 7, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

Pricing - A Cautionary Tale

from Anya @ Anya's Garden of Natural Perfumery

Ahhhh…the smell of money. As intoxicating and seductive as a gorgeous natural perfume….but….your business skills have to match your blending skills, and your PR skills may also be called upon if you’re caught with your pants down, and your bottom…

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January 5, 2007 | Filed Under Perfume Bloggers | Comments Off 

Bryant Park, Spring 2007

from Briana @ BOND NO.9 FRAGRANCES

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January 5, 2007 | Filed Under Main Page | Comments Off 

Bryant Park, Bond No.9’s Spring Debut

from Briana @ BOND NO.9 FRAGRANCES

Bond No. 9’s Bryant Park:


The Scent of New York’s Frenzied Fashionistas Descending on a Lush Oasis of WiFe’ed Greenery Just One Block from Times Square


(Who Would Ever Have Guessed?)


            Imagine an oasis of unflappably serene greenery, improbably nestled in a canyon of skyscrapers down the street from Times Square, in the heart of midtown Manhattan.  Now, add chandelier-lit mega-tents, A-list designers, world-class models, press, buyers, and, oh yes, racks and racks of next year’s clothes, and you have the paradox that is today’s Bryant Park—the world’s most frenetic style arena equipped with shrubbery, flower beds, a carousel, and WiFi too.        


            Bryant Park is the inspiration for and name of Bond No. 9’s 28th and most fashion-oriented eau de parfum:  a rose-patchouli concoction with pink pepper added for dissonance.  This sublime park, a formidable backyard for the Beaux Arts 42nd Street headquarters of the New York Public Library, is itself a living, breathing contradiction.  Once a Native American hunting ground, later a potter’s field, and then the site for a world’s fair, it acquired a disreputable reputation by the 1930s.  In the 1950s, the park was redesigned in the French classical tradition, with a large central lawn, elegant pathways, stone balustrades, an oval plaza, and a fountain.  That didn’t help.  By the ‘70s, it had once again sunk into decline. 


            But the 1990s brought urban renewalists and fashionistas, and with them summer music, movies, a Christmas market, and the semi-annual New York Fashion Week—which has changed Bryant Park forever—giving it a cachet to match its sublime scenery.  While the fate of Fashion Week in this location hangs in the balance, one thing is sure: it has bestowed on this green-space an aura of style that is part of its contemporary legacy.


              The Bryant Park artist-designed bottle, with its swirls of pink, lavender, and black on a white background, recalls the exuberant gossamer silk pre-Mod textiles of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s—just when style was re-defining itself.


Bryant Park is available at all four Bond No. 9 stores in New York, countrywide at selected branches of Saks Fifth Avenue and internationally at Harvey Nichols, UK, Paris Gallery, U.A.E, and in Lane Crawford, Hong Kong.


Launch Date:  March 1st 2007


Besides being sold in its 3.4 oz. artist-designed superstar bottle and box presentation ($185), 1.7oz travel size ($125) and by the ounce ($45), either in a 2-ounce basic spray flacon with gilt honeycomb cap ($40-$150) or in our unique vintage or art bottles, featured in a wide variety of designs ($60 - $200).


           


 


 

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January 5, 2007 | Filed Under Main Page, Updates | Comments Off